Customised Solutions
Specialises in developing customised solutions that perfectly fit the unique requirements of each client, ensuring optimal performance and integration with existing processes.Comprehensive Support Services
Provides extensive after-sales support, including training, maintenance, and technical assistance, to ensure smooth operation and quick resolution of any issues.Long-Term Partnership and Consultation
Acts as a long-term partner for clients, offering ongoing consultation and upgrades to keep pace with technological advancements and changing industry demands.
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RNA’s Capabilities
Custom systems for precise feeding and orientation of fasteners.
- Vibratory bowl feeders and centrifugal feeders for screws, bolts, and nuts for high speed production
- Flexible Feeders FlexType™ P and FlexType™ R for flexible component handling, enabling quick changeovers.
- Conveyors and Pneumatic Transfer Units: Seamlessly transport component parts to assembly stations.
- Applications: Feeding screws, rivets, washers, and O-rings for automotive, aerospace, and electronics assembly.
Robotic solutions for repetitive and precise tasks, enhancing productivity in fastener manufacturing and assembly.
- Robotic Pick-and-Place: High-speed handling of components for assembly or packaging.
- Collaborative Robots (Cobots): Integrate 6-axis cobots for safe, flexible automation alongside human operators.
- Robotic Handling: Automate part transfer, palletising, and machine tending.
- Custom Robotic Cells: Tailored systems for complex tasks like screwdriving or riveting.
- Applications: Assembly of fasteners in automotive and electronics, palletising finished products.
Vision and inspection systems ensure fasteners meet stringent quality standards, reducing defects and ensuring compliance.
- High-Speed Camera Vision Inspection: Detects defects in screws, bolts, and rivets in real-time.
- Vision-Guided Robotics: Enhances precision in component placement and assembly.
- Applications: Quality assurance for aerospace fasteners, verification of automotive weld-nuts.
Complete automation cells that integrate multiple processes, delivering ready-to-use solutions for fastener production.
- Assembly Automation: Combines feeding, robotic assembly, and inspection for component parts
- Rotary Indexing Machines: Efficiently perform multiple tasks (e.g., screwing, welding, inspecting) in a single cycle.
- Packaging Automation: Automates boxing, wrapping, and labeling of fasteners for distribution.
- Custom Turnkey Cells: Fully integrated systems tailored to specific production needs, minimising setup time.
RNA’s in-house engineering team designs custom systems to meet unique client requirements in the fastener sector.
- Custom Machinery Design: Develops specialised equipment for handling and assembling fasteners.
- Mechanical and Electrical Engineering: Creates robust, reliable systems with precise control.
- Prototyping and Testing: Validates solutions to ensure compatibility with production goals.
- Collaboration with OEMs to integrate RNA’s feeding, handling, and robotic systems into larger automation platforms.
- Engineering support for seamless interfacing with OEM equipment, ensuring compatibility and performance.
- Systems designed for high-speed operations to meet the demands of high-volume production.
- Flexible systems (e.g., RNA FlexType) adaptable to various product types and sizes, accommodating diverse packaging and assembly needs.
- RNA offers both custom and standard equipment, enabling OEMs to scale production or offer off-the-shelf solutions to their clients.
- Standardised components like vibratory bowl feeders reduce development time.
Utilising advanced AI and simulation tools (RNA Digital), RNA optimises system designs for performance, reliability, and efficiency, predicting part handling outcomes and reducing development time for OEM applications.
Applications
EcoType™ Bowl Feeders
Bowl Feeder EcoType™ Bowl Feeders
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Spring Feed System with Detangler
Spring Separator Standard Equipment
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Bowl Feeder to feed, orientate, and blow feed Fasteners
Bowl Feeder Multi-lane Linear Systems
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What our clients say
“RNA has been a great company to work with. They have helped develop an idea into a reality with our latest machine, which has been successful. Due to this machine being a new development, we have continued work alongside them to improve the machine for future iterations. Their communication has been good throughout the project, and their employees have been knowledgeable, friendly, and helpful.
In light of the recent project, I would recommend RNA to other businesses, and we will hopefully be using them again for future automation projects within the business. ”
Production Engineer of a Market-leading manufacturer of high quality bathroom, plumbing and washroom products.
Fastener FAQs
Industrial components and fasteners like screws, bolts, nuts, and rivets are essential in manufacturing. Their production involves complex processes requiring high precision and stringent quality standards. Custom automated systems are specifically designed for their production and assembly.
Automation is widely used in the fastener industry to enhance production efficiency, ensure high-quality standards, and reduce costs. Some of these automation solutions for the fastener industry include:
- Automated parts feeding & handling
- Pick & place
- Robotics
- Vision inspection & quality control
- Welding & cutting
- Packging & processing
- Assembly & test
- Automated production line
RNA designs automation systems to handle a wide range of industrial parts including screws, nuts, bolts, washers, clips, pins, springs, stamped parts, connectors, and custom-shaped fasteners.
We provide vibratory bowl feeders, step feeders, centrifugal feeders, and custom escapement tooling to accurately orient and present components. We design every solution around part geometry, ensuring reliable singulation, orientation, and transfer—even for challenging shapes.
Yes. Our high-speed feeding solutions—including multi-lane linear systems and centrifugal feeders—are engineered to handle up to several hundred parts per minute with excellent precision. These are ideal for integration into fast-paced assembly, packaging, or machining lines.
Absolutely. RNA builds feeders and conveyors designed to cope with parts that are oily, magnetised, sharp-edged, or heavy. We apply special coatings, magnetic separation, or hardened materials as needed to ensure system durability and performance.
For lines requiring multiple fastener types or variants, we offer multi-track feeders, flexible feeding systems (FlexType™), and robotic pick-and-place units guided by vision systems. These systems are ideal for complex assemblies, kits, or changeover-heavy applications.
Yes. RNA specialises in modular, scalable integration—whether retrofitting feeders into CNC machining cells, or integrating entire feeding and orientation platforms into robotic or semi-automated lines. We offer full mechanical and software interfacing support.
Contact our team to discuss your next project. Our experts will provide guidance and support to help you achieve your goals. Call us on +44 (0)121 749 2566 or email us using [email protected].
From simple systems through to high speed and multiple component variants RNA have the experience and feeding solutions to suit Industrial Components and Fasteners feeding applications.
Chris Mills | Global Business Development Manager